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How 19th-Century Zombie Dogs Revealed the Workings of the Brain
A dog's brain (Photo: katja/Pixabay)This is part one of a three-part series on decapitation. The story below contains some disturbing treatment of animals, including dogs and monkeys, so if that sort...
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FOUND: A Spider as Heavy as a Puppy
A giant spider (Photo: John/Flickr)Piotr Naskrecki, an entomologist at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, was in the rainforest in Guyana, surveying the animals and plants to be found there, when...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Multicolored Smile in the Sky
(Photo: Louise Longson/Facebook)Is that a smile in the sky or are the heavens just happy to see you?Actually, the answer is neither. On October 25, residents of the small Oxfordshire village of...
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Arboretum Groenlandicum in Narsarsuaq, Greenland
In the middle of the 20th century, the icy island nation of Greenland in the North Atlantic faced a bit of an arboreal conundrum, and pillaging its neighbors' trees seemed to be the only answer....
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Shining a Spotlight on Tough-As-Nails L.A. Crime Reporter Agness Underwood
Portrait of Agness "Aggie" May Underwood. (ca. 1933, Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library)At a time when most female journalists were writing advice columns and reporting on...
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The Psychic Who Doesn't Believe in Ghosts–and Doesn't Think You Should Either
A spiritualistic séance by Väinö Kunnas (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)This article originally appeared on Motherboard.Fog still lingered in the séance room from the previous performance when...
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How Haitian Slave Culture Gave Life to Zombies
Vodou altar during a celebration for Papa Guédé in Boston. (Photo: Calvin Hennick/WikiCommons CC BY 3.0)Zombies have infested our culture. There are zombie movies by the hundreds, zombie literature by...
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La Promenade Plantée in Paris, France
There's something extra enchanting about industrial spaces being recovered by nature's always reaching tendrils, and the Promenade Plantée in Paris owns this enchantment fully. Also called the Coulée...
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Louis Riel's Gravestone in Winnipeg, Canada
Louis Riel, leader of the Métis nation, folk hero to many Canadians – native and European descendants alike – was hung as a traitor in 1885. Riel is now seen as an important and influential founder of...
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Dun Carloway in Carloway, Scotland
As if rolling hills and a blue loch weren’t scenic enough, the district of Carloway on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis is also home to a crumbling stone tower that overlooks it all.Dun Carloway is...
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Castleboro House in Wexford, Ireland
Sitting on Irish farmland near the Forestalstown river, the ruins of Castleboro House have never been returned to the splendor they once embodied before IRA sympathizers destroyed the estate.The grand...
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Betondorp in Amsterdam, Netherlands
If you happen to find yourself in Amsterdam's Betondorp neighborhood and it seems as though the color has gone out of the world, just realize that it is simply due to the fact that you have entered a...
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Turnip Jack-o'-Lanterns Are The Root Of All Evil
(Photo: IrishFireside/Creative Commons)This Halloween season, the United Kingdom is in the grip of a wet weather-induced pumpkin shortage. As a result, some British trick-or-treaters may be greeted at...
View ArticleHeadless Cockroaches: The Myth, The Legend, The YouTube Videos
This is part two of a three-part series on decapitation. Previously: Zombie dogs and the birth of neurosurgery.We will probably never know who was the first person to behead a cockroach and watch in...
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Inside the Disgusting Los Angeles Haunted House Where They Touch You
Inside The 17th Door Haunted House Experience in Tustin, California. (Photo: Courtesy The 17th Door Haunted House Experience)Let’s start this off with some radical honesty: I hate being scared. And as...
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The Sweet Halloween Archives of a Candy Historian
(Image: Jason Liebig/collectingcandy.com)For New York candy collector Jason Liebig, peak sugar-hunting season begins in September when the back-to-school displays come down and the seasonal Halloween...
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Fleeting Wonders: Sheep So Gassy They Brought Down a Plane
Several sheep, not on a plane. (Photo: Jorann Bosscher/WikiCommons)Yesterday, a Singapore Airlines cargo plane en route from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur made an emergency landing in Bali, AirLive reports....
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Prometheus Cave in Georgia
The city of Kutaisi is the second largest city in Georgia and well worth stopping through on its own, but more so for a trip to Prometheus Cave, located about 12 miles away.Prometheus the Titan, who,...
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Where U.S. Mail Went to Die
The dead letter office, circa 1926. (Photo: Library of Congress)The "dead" mail arrived constantly, black bags filled with almost 30,000 letters and parcels each day. These high casualties caused only...
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FOUND: Extremely Creepy Masks Hidden in a Boston Subway Station
The two masks (Photo: MBTA)While renovating the Government Center subway station in Boston, construction workers came across a hollow section of concrete, the Boston Globe reports. Inside, there was a...
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